Vice President and co-founder

Brant M. Edwards is Vice President and Co-Founder of BruckEdwards, Inc. Mr. Edwards is a leading authority in the analysis, design, integration, implementation and transition of electronic directory, messaging and collaboration systems, and advanced Internet security technologies. Prior to founding BruckEdwards, Inc., Mr. Edwards served at PEC Solutions, Inc. for over 9 years. Most recently, Mr. Edwards managed the e-Authentication Department where he was responsible for the oversight of more than fifteen system engineers and analysts supporting secure e-Government projects for customers including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the USDA’s National Finance Center (NFC) and Social Security Administration (SSA). Mr. Edwards holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems from James Madison University.

Career Highlights:

DOJ Public Key Infrastructure System Designer

Mr. Edwards served as the e-Authentication Solutions, Department Manger for PEC, supporting the system design and development of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). In this role Mr. Edwards assisted in the requirements analysis, design, and development of the PKI to support secure messaging, secure network authentication, and secure remote access services for the Department’s SBU user base. As a Systems Designer, Mr. Edwards contributed to the engineering, writing and presentation of project deliverables and briefings to the DOJ PKI stakeholders, including the PKI Enterprise Architecture, Cost Review, System Design Document, and System Installation Plan.

NMCI Directory, Messaging and Collaboration Transition Manager

As the Department Manger and Technical Authority for PEC support the Navy Marine Corp. Intranet (NMCI) Messaging Transition project, Mr. Edwards was responsible for the development and implementation of processes and procedures to transition the U.S. Navy and Marine Corp’s from various, disparate, legacy messaging and collaboration platforms to the centralized NMCI Microsoft Exchange 2000 solution. During this two and half year effort, Mr. Edwards managed the daily activities for a team of over thirty technical and analytical staff working to meet critical project deadlines and a smooth user migration experience. Mr. Edwards supported and conducted site assessment surveys; system design documentation for each site visited; and the implementation of the NMCI solution at select Navy and Marine installations as well as developed and delivered client briefs to Navy and Marine executives and staff.

Joint Automated Booking System

Mr. Edwards served as the Department of Justice (DOJ) Joint Automated Booking System (JABS) senior systems engineer where he was responsible for the system engineering and operation of the JABS core system and the integration of the DEA Automated Booking Station. Mr. Edwards assisted in the in the system analysis, design, and development of the JABS infrastructure used to automate the criminal booking process. The system provides rapid identification of wanted individuals via the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint System (IAFIS) and allows for real-time information sharing among law enforcement agencies. This capability will help federal authorities authenticate prisoner identities and provide interagency investigative information.

Department of Justice Directory and Email Gateway Initiative

As the Project Manger and Technical Lead for the Department of Justice’s, Electronic Messaging, and Directory Services Gateway initiative, Mr. Edwards was responsible for managing, designing and developing the overall system design, integration and implementation of a proof-of-concept system. The proof-of-concept system addressed the need of the Department to transition from an unreliable X.400 and LDAP messaging and directory solution connecting the various disparate DOJ Component email systems to a SMTP and LDAP based solution modeled after leading Internet Service Providers. The proof-of-concept solution incorporated parallel operation of the legacy and proposed system and addressed future growth for a DOJ PKI solution.

Fairfax County Circuit Court, Court Automated Recording System

As the Senior Systems Engineer, Mr. Edwards was responsible for the continuing analysis, design, and development of the Fairfax County Circuit Court, Court Automated Recording System supporting infrastructure. CARS is a land records and public services document capture system that automates the filing of deeds, trusts, certificates of satisfaction, financial statements, marriage licenses, wills, notaries, judgments, and other documents. The automated system has the capability to process thousands of documents a day. CARS provides a web-based retrieval component which enables stake-holders to securely access a constantly growing database of official court records. Mr. Edwards performed a system performance analysis to evaluate and identify bottlenecks in the system. The resulting report served as the basis for the County’s capacity planning and hardware and software upgrade roadmap.

Drug Enforcement Administration Project Firebird

Mr. Edwards was the chief architect for the DEA’s Firebird global email system. From program pilot in August 1995 until the deployment of the Phase II Technical Refresh in 1999, Mr. Edwards led and managed the analysis, design, engineering, integration, and implementation of the DEA’s office automation systems in support of the Firebird program. In this role, Mr. Edwards provided DEA technical expertise with respect to network, backoffice, and messaging and collaboration systems. He was responsible for system design documentation, system administrator training support and providing Tier III operational support to system administrator in the field.